About Deborah

I am a Gestalt Therapist and Psychotherapist and specialise in working with couples who are faced with unexpected events or chronic issues affecting the quality of their relationship. I also work extensively with individuals who are dealing with anxiety, stress, workplace issues and relationship/family issues.

Specifically, I assist couples to work through the rupture of their relationship, when one of them has had an affair. To help them address “unfinished business” and often long held resentments that impacts their feeling of safety and connection with their partner. Sometimes there has not been a crisis, just a slow disconnection from each other, and the realisation something is wrong, and they want to get back to what they used to have.

I have years of experience working with diverse couples and individuals, including those in same sex and transgender relationships. So, if you need LGBT friendly counselling or are looking for an LGBT affirming therapist, I can help. 

I have worked as an accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner mediating with separated parents to work through their parenting issues as new single parents. I no longer maintain my accreditation as I have focussed on my psychotherapy practice, but these experiences value add enormously to my work with couples and families.

As an accredited Circle of Security Parenting (COSP) Facilitator I provide educational workshops for individuals, couples and small groups that provides evidence-based learning programs on attachment-based parenting. This program helps all caregivers get to the emotions the child is experiencing, rather then just responding to the behaviour, this makes it unique and the only program that has secure attachment and safety as its goal.